The Montana Conservationist, May 24

Greetings, readers! We have a great issue of the Montana Conservationist this week:

A big welcome to our new Operations Manager, Melissa Downing

Butte is celebrating the opening of Montana Craft Malt, which will malt exclusively Montana-grown barley and sell to Montana’s blossoming craft brewing economy

The US Fish & Wildlife Service announces plans to retain management of the National Bison Range

Matt Jaeger gives us a report on a flushing flow that was coordinated on the Beaverhead River to reduce fine sediment and improve the fishery

NPR tunes in with an interesting story on sagebrush

The Helena High School team repeated as winners of the Montana Envirothon, and the Helena Independent Record reports on some of the people & strategies that got them there

The President delivered his budget plan to Congress this week, and naturally there are a lot of opinions going ’round. We have a highlight reel of a few of articles from our favorite news sources.

Missoula Conservation District is launching a public input process to help them guide long-range planning for natural resources. We’re keeping an eye on the process in the hopes that the lessons they learn may be beneficial to other districts

And if your organization is looking to build capacity, applications are now open to be a host site for a 2018 Big Sky Watershed Corps Member!

Kate is the Communications and Technology Manager for Soil & Water Conservation Districts of Montana. She manages the website, puts out The Montana Conservationist every other week, and assists conservation districts with technology, websites, and communications.

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